Nadige Janara Balige under the scanner

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BANGALORE: A meeting of senior Congress party leaders has been convened on Saturday to review the impact of the party's 60day prog..

BANGALORE: A meeting of senior Congress party leaders has been convened on Saturday to review the impact of the party's 60day programme Congress Nadige Janara Balige (Congress march towards people) which is now at its halfway mark.Kagodu Thimmappa, former minister and chief of the monitoring committee of the party's firstever mass contact programme, informed this to Express here on Friday. He added that besides the state office bearers, including KPCC president Dr G Parameshwar, all district Congress presidents and district observers would take stock of the ongoing programme.
Claiming that the party's programme has elicited overwhelming response from the party's rank and file at the grassroots, Thimmappa, once a socialist leader, said it has resulted in better contact between the party leaders and workers. Party leaders, as part of the party's 'march to the masses', have visited over 3,200 booth committees and wards in the state and held facetoface meetings with the workers, when they discussed about strategies to strengthen the party and bringing it back to power.The Congress has been out of the political scheme of things since 2004 in Karnataka which was once its bastion when the 20month old CongressJD(S) coalition government suffered a fracture.

Thimmappa said that in Saturday's meeting, the district observers will present their version on the success of the programme and views of the workers on the functioning of the party machinery in their respective taluks and districts. "Views of the party workers will be taken up seriously as their inputs will be a crucial input to the Congress' strategies to strengthen its base," he said.

He said the training programmes would inculcate the party's policies and programmes among its leaders. "Over 10,000 public meetings would be held at both the panchayat and booth levels," he said.

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